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Hister

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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No PaywallSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintBinary · SourceNo external DB23+ active committers (12mo)

About

Hister is a private search engine designed for people who want to index and search the pages they visit and the files they keep. It stores full-content indexes so users can retrieve information later...

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Features

  • Full text indexing
  • Automatic browser indexing
  • Powerful queries
  • Optional semantic search
  • Crawler and browser import
  • Web interface
  • Terminal/TUI access
  • MCP client support
  • Multi user support

Details

Last Updated
Oct 13, 2026
Created
Jan 4, 2026
Install Methods
binarysource
Requirements
Go 1.26npma C compiler for CGO dependencies
Runtime / Stack
GoDocker
Privacy & Independence
No TelemetryNo Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
User Model
Multi-User
Deployment

Deployment: Docker Compose ✓Single Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container

Run Hister with Docker Compose

Compose file from the Hister project repository.

1 service

no resource limits declared

needs persistent storage (1 volume)

compose.yml · @ 488c207 · scanned Sep 23, 2026

services:
  hister:
    image: ${HISTER_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/asciimoo/hister:latest}
    # Prefer the published image for `compose up`; `compose build` still uses
    # the source below and can reuse layers from the published image.
    pull_policy: missing
    build:
      context: .
      target: release
      cache_from:
        - ${HISTER_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/asciimoo/hister:latest}
        - type=registry,ref=${HISTER_CACHE_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/asciimoo/hister:buildcache}
    container_name: hister
    init: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    read_only: true
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    cap_drop:
      - ALL
    ports:
      - '4433:4433'
    volumes:
      - hister_data:/hister/data
    tmpfs:
      - /tmp:noexec,nosuid,size=64m
    environment:
      HISTER__SERVER__ADDRESS: 0.0.0.0:4433
      HISTER__SERVER__BASE_URL: http://localhost:4433

volumes:
  hister_data:

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